Backyard Chicken Setup

A cheap and simple henhouse, run and portable fencing system that went up in a weekend. For about 5 minutes of work a day and 25 cents worth of chicken feed and electricity, I get three eggs a day!

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Education

Tags:

• backyard
• chickens
• setupa
• coop
• henhouse
• wisconsin
• cable
• ties
• eggs
• tyvek

[arkeljankushova]

the coop does not look good

[djbarryiii]

@arkeljankushova I agree...but it works fine!

[frogman604]

im not trying to be mean but whene u have a choice betwen wire mesh and astroterf of cors e they will really like astroterf. checkens dont like wire it cuts there feet up and herts them so that given u gave them what 2'x3' area to walk on in there coop?

[djbarryiii]

@frogman604 I have to agree that it's not really new or interesting...but it's cheap, simple to make and it works. On the plus side, a small box kept the ladies a lot warmer when it was10 below zero outside...which happens here once or twice every winter.

[djbarryiii]

In the winter I put it on top of the flower pot heater---which keeps it from freezing.

[ddgrower]

I think your setup is really efficient, clean and low maintenance. Good work.

[djbarryiii]

@ddgrower Thanks == that was the idea. So many chicken coops are mini Hilton Hotels. I wanted to put together something for around $150 inclusive that could be built in a weekend and required minimal daily maintenance. This system is really basic, but it works...even in extremes of temperature.

[ANIMLLOVRZZ66]

Hey check out my vids pllzzzz

[gracekennyblogg]

@frogman604 your a mean person, this setup has a lot of positives. Your is just a fancy box. Nothing interesting dude!

[frogman604]

man what r u thinkingh? mabe u should of done some reserch befor u got the chickens. your set up is all wrong. any person that knows any thing about chickens can see that they will not be happy. u said that this cost u $150.00 look at my vids and see what i made for $200.00.

[arguewithanaithiest]

16 hours is perfect they loooooooove 16 hours